Backlinking and C class IPs

Hello

Firstly if you are concerned about domain age, you could buy an aged domain to help with the process (i.e auctions.godaddy.com). But basically if you get more backlinks to your page using the keyword as anchor text you want to rank for, then you will outrank the other guy. It's as simple as that.

You should of course make sure your own page is 100% on-page optimized for the keyword you want rank for as well.

Cheers,

Stian

You should definitely start to outrank them in a few months with some good backlinks, be sure to check getlisted (dot) org (sorry can't post links yet) as this is a great tool for getting local and relevant links to our business...

I cant really buy an aged domain , well actually the one I bought is aged, it was the name of our business with a slight twist, someone else owned it and parked it, so I think google might not even see the domain as aged since it was not being utilized even though it was owned

currently my 2 competitors have about the same number of backlinks as me (this is an offline buss by the way, brick and mortar hotel/resort)

However all their backlinks are basically like this
nameThierhotel.com
www.nameTheirHotel.com

etc
pretty useless really the only reason they outrank me now IMO is because

1. my domain is only purchased and put up Feb 10
2. they have been around for years with zero competition online

I hope I outrank them that would be fun, since they are right down the street, I dont expect to for about 6 months even one year would be ok, frankly I dont have enough rooms in the hotel to handle a huge influx of online requests and plan to add about 20 more rooms this year (fun but should pay off)

cool thing is once I do (hopefully) outrank them
they will have no clue how i did it since backlinks is so unknown to 99 percent of web unsavvy businesses

heck 90 percent of the hotels in the area have NO WEBSITE at all, which is odd, they survive by word of mouth advertising

What keyword are you competing for? How many links does both of you have using that exact keyword?

Exact keyword links are very important... Stian was getting at that earlier. Simply having a larger number of links won't necessarily do the trick, you need to look at things like the anchor text, where that link is coming from, the page rank of the page sending the link, age of the sending domain, etc etc...

Nonetheless, if he's only got 30 or so links, you should be able to out rank him fairly easily, with probably fairly low level links.